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    Sir Archibald Geikie OM KCB FRS FRSE (28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924) was a Scottish geologist and writer. Geikie was born in Edinburgh in 1835, the...
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  • Geikie is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Archibald Geikie (1835–1924), Scottish geologist and writer Georgina Geikie (born 1984)...
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    Danggu (Geikie) Gorge National Park is a national park in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, 1,837 kilometres (1,141 mi) (great-circle distance)...
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    Henry Thomas De la Beche, Thomas Henry Huxley, Joseph Prestwich, Archibald Geikie, Jethro Teall, and Charles Lapworth. Later well-known names include...
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  • Geikie named for Scottish geologist Sir Archibald Geikie may relate to: Mount Geikie (Canada) Mount Geikie (Tasmania) Mount Geikie (Wyoming) Geikie Peak...
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  • Loudon Snowden (1835-1912), American diplomat Sir Archibald Geikie (1835–1924), Scottish geologist Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847–1929), Prime...
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    Archibald Geikie Brown (18 July 1844 – 2 April 1922) was a Calvinistic Baptist minister; a student, friend, and associate of Charles Spurgeon; and from...
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    rocks had undergone through weathering and erosion. As remarked by Sir Archibald Geikie, the doctrine of the origin of valleys by the erosive action of the...
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    on the papers to Archibald Geikie who had met Forbes only twice. Forbes's widow married Major Yelverton in 1858 and forbade Geikie to work on the memoirs...
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    Houghton. Geikie, Archibald (1875). Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison: Based on His Journals and Letters. Vol. 2. London: John Murray. Geikie, Archibald (1911)...
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    retiral of Archibald Geikie, the Survey's director-general, who had been slow to accept the new geological paradigm. However, in retirement Geikie's status...
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    Carnegie Museum William Jacob Holland, and finally the geologist Sir Archibald Geikie. The cast was mounted in the museum's Reptile Gallery to the left of...
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    Richthofen 1893 Nevil Story Maskelyne 1894 Karl Alfred von Zittel 1895 Archibald Geikie 1896 Eduard Suess 1897 Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston 1898 Ferdinand Zirkel...
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  • 1908 Ernest Mason Satow An Austrian diplomatist in the fifties 1909 Archibald Geikie Charles Darwin as Geologist 1910 Charles Harding Firth The parallel...
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    were crowned on the stone up to Muirchertach mac Ercae, c. 500 AD. Archibald Geikie noted resemblances to the calcareous red sandstone of which the Stone...
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    ISBN 978-1-86239-102-4. S2CID 219225651. Oldroyd, David (1996). "Sir Archibald Geikie (1835–1924) and the "Highlands Controversy": New archival sources for...
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    Comparative Anatomy, Cambridge University 1866–1907, with a Preface by Sir Archibald Geikie OM. Dutton, NY. pp. 118–120. Jensen, J. Vernon 1991. Thomas Henry Huxley:...
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  • Hutton Balfour, Peter Guthrie Tait, Alexander Crum Brown, and Sir Archibald Geikie. He won the society's Keith Prize for the period 1875–1877. It had...
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    Archibald Geikie Wilfred Hudleston Henry Woodward Henry Hicks William Whitaker 20th century Jethro Teall Charles Lapworth John Marr Archibald Geikie William...
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    Mount Geikie is a 12,378-foot-elevation (3,773-meter) mountain summit in Sublette County, Wyoming, United States. Mount Geikie is located in the remote...
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  • the end of the 19th Century predominantly between Sir Archibald Geikie and Henry Hicks. Geikie (then director of the Geological Survey) insisted upon...
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    rocky soil. It was first used to describe primary glacial deposits by Archibald Geikie in 1863. Early researchers tended to prefer the term boulder clay for...
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    including James Hutton (the "father of modern geology"), Hugh Miller and Archibald Geikie. Various locations such as 'Hutton's Unconformity' at Siccar Point...
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    Archibald Geikie Wilfred Hudleston Henry Woodward Henry Hicks William Whitaker 20th century Jethro Teall Charles Lapworth John Marr Archibald Geikie William...
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    220 km long and was named after Scottish geologist Sir Archibald Geikie in 1976 by the IAU. Dorsa Geikie, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International...
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    Robertson Bay (redirect from Geikie Ridge)
    Borchgrevink, who named the high land between these glaciers Geikie Land, after Sir Archibald Geikie. The generic "Land" has been changed to "Ridge," since...
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    important members including Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, T.W. Rolleston, Sir Archibald Geikie, and Lady Augusta Gregory. In the late 19th century the Creery Sisters...
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    Archibald Geikie Wilfred Hudleston Henry Woodward Henry Hicks William Whitaker 20th century Jethro Teall Charles Lapworth John Marr Archibald Geikie William...
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    system, Geikie Peak is located in a cold semi-arid climate zone. George Wharton James named it "Geikie Monument" in 1901 for Sir Archibald Geikie (1835–1924)...
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  • 15 March 1912 18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940 Physicist 34. Sir Archibald Geikie 1 January 1914 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 Geologist 35. Sir...
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